Author Searches

For example, an author search using a full name may not return complete results.

NOT GOOD:jon kleinberg

This will not return all records authored by Jon Kleinberg. Rather, it will only return records for which the first name "Jon" is included unabbreviated.

In author searches, it may be better to use the last name only or the first initial and the last name. For example,

GOOD:kleinberg

BETTER:j kleinberg

Do to author normalizations included within the CiteSeerx index, the latter query
will match authors listed as "J Kleinberg", "Jon Kleinberg", and even "Jon M Kleinberg"

Citation Searches

Unlike the old CiteSeer system, citations and full documents are
included within the same index in CiteSeerx. By default, citations for which we have no accompanying document file
will not show up in search results. If it is desirable to include these records in search results,
simply check the Include Citations checkbox on the search form.

Search Plugins

CiteSeerx offers three Search plugins for browsers which supports the Open Search 1.1 specification.
To add a plugin just click over it.

Capitalization Does Not Matter

CiteSeerx is NOT case sensitive. All letters, regardless of how you type them, will be understood as lower case. For example, searches for "bollacker", "Bollacker", and "bOlLaCkEr" will all return the same results.